WARS OF THE NINETIES. 130 company E.D.,R.A.,with two 40-pounder siege guns. Egyptian artillery : horse battery ; six Krupp guns, throwing a oj-pound shell;four fieldbatteries of Maxim-Nordenfeldt quick-firing guns,six to each battery, and of the same calibre as the Krupps.

of friendly Arabs, under Major Stuart-Wortley, was to march up the east bank. It will thus be seen thatSir HerbertKitchener,whenhe began his advance in the middle of August,had at his disposal a far more formidable force than had ever before been under the command of a British general in the' Soudan— a force that, considering the character of the resistance This army was to advance on Omdurman by the west bank of the Nile. At the same time Keppel's flotilla of fourteen gunboats was to steam up the river,and a forceof somethousands which it was likely to encounter, might well be described as invincible.

WOOr.SN TAIU.ET, inscribed with a verse from the koram, found ON THE UODY OF A DERVISH KILLED IN BATTLE.